sniperton

Yes, KoMik, I think you're right. I came to the same conclusion. Currently, 'reload with restart' seems to be the only solution to the problem. Good luck, I hope you'll succeed. And many thanks for your excellent work!

When God with us, who against? Success! Yesterday was obviously a day of inspiration. One key moment was of course to delete damn ODBC files, but my situation was even more complicated. When tampering with ODBC, I unintentionally created multiple (and conflicting) instances of databeses, which in turn prevented SQLServer to set up properly. Although I have had deleted the MSSQL folder and the ODBC dat files long before, obsolate references to these ghost-databeses were still present in the registry, as neither SQL uninstall, nor reg cleaners seem to have removed them. So I took some risk and deleted the whole MSSQLServer section from the registry manually. It worked. Sooo, leet's MOOOOD sommething!!! And lots of thanks for your compassion and posts!

Hi Tiger, I can offer no solution, only a consolation. I have the same problem. It seems to be related to an unsuccessful ODBC installation. I wanted to access the Weapons database via MS Access, run the ODBC wizard, failed, removed/modified SQL server settings, got stuck, uninstalled, then tried to reinstall -- same symptoms and messages... Now I believe (but don't know for sure) that former database references may have not been properly removed from registry, and this might prevent SQL Engine from setting up. I downloaded some reg cleaners just now. Suggest to do the same and give it a try. Otherwise, since the time I managed to mess up my OS by tampering with ODBC, I 've been experiencing strange mod behaviour (I reported it in a nearby thread "RandomStorm Problem: cannot inflict criticals"). The two problems are possibly related. Would be grateful if you could check whether you have crits after reloading a modded savegame. (It should be a reload, not a "clean" load after gamestart.) Hope we'll find a way around, Best luck

Hi, It's really odd. Seems to be a game bug. 1. If I start a new (modded) campaign without restarting the game, then the bug is present: I can get, but cannot inflict critical hits, and there are no flying messages whatsoever (e.g. 'AP reduction', etc). Unaimed careful shots usually cause more damage than those aimed at the head with 100% hit probability. 2. OK, so far, so good. But now I save the game in the middle of a mission or RE, exit to Windows, start the game again, and load the file I saved half a minute ago. Miracle! It works fine, I'm able to inflict criticals and there are plenty of flying messages

Hi KoMik, thanks for the comment and, generally, for your otherwise fascinating mod! It happens in every RE, both old and new, plus in ordinary scenarios. Negative. Body armour shouldn't affact the damage caused by headshots, should it? It seems to me instead that characters lose some of their special abilities gained before the mod was installed. I will make a try and start a new game with RS_Mod installed from the very beginning, just to see what happens in that case. I'll report the results. Cheers and thanks again!

Hi slaughtermates, I have S3 v1.1 with koMik's excellent RS_Mod v. "(finaltest?)". I applied the mod in mid-game using S3AddMod. After reloading the savegame it seems that my squad members have completely lost their ability to inflict critical hits. Moreover, it seems that the mod suppresses the effect of special abilities such as increased damage etc. (The average xp level of my team was about 10, and 100+ damage was not a rarity before. Now a 12 xp master sniper can only cause a <40 damage with a headshot.) As the first time I applied the mod while in game, I made some experiments. Exited the game, applied the mod, then started the game again. Very strange, but everything went fine (the guys were as good as before) until the second scenario/RE. Then the guys sank back to rookie level again. Is it a known problem/bug? If yes, is there any workaround for it? Thank you for your time. Any help, advice or hint would be most appreciated. Yours most obedient Sniperton